Extending bar stake puller

Abstract

A hand tool for pulling tent stakes, trap stakes, or driven anchors comprising a claw foot having a standing bar, and a sliding bar with a handle, wherein the standing bar and the sliding bar are slideably engaged to each other by a slide impact lug affixed to the standing bar and a running impact lug affixed to the sliding bar. The tool, a stake puller, being lightweight and operable with one hand, uses the sliding hammer principle.

I claim: 
     
       1. An extending bar stake puller, comprising a foot, having claws, and   a standing bar rigidly affixed at one end to the top of the foot, and   an impact lug rigidly affixed to the free end of the standing bar; said impact lug being sized and shaped to form an aperture and slideably accept a slide bar therein adjacent to the standing bar, and   the slide bar, and   a handle rigidly affixed to one end of the slide bar, and said slide bar being inserted into the aperture formed by the impact lug in a manner such that the plane of the handle is parallel to the direction of the claws on the foot, and   a running impact lug rigidly affixed to the free end of the slide bar, said running impact lug being sized and shaped to slideably surround the standing bar.   
     
     
       2. The invention of claim 1 wherein the standing bar and the slide bar are made of material having a square tubular cross section. 
     
     
       3. The invention of claim 1 having in addition a cushion grip enclosing the handle.